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Suspected Hamas militants surrender in the north of the Strip, in an image released by the Israel Defense Forces a few days ago. ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | REUTERS
About 200 were transferred to “interrogation camps” by the Army
23 dic 2023 . Updated at 6:35 p.m.
He Israeli army detained nearly 700 alleged members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihadof which about 200 were taken to Israel for interrogation.
The Israeli forces assured this Saturday that the arrests occurred during the last week in the Palestinian enclave by the Army and the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency.
Some of them surrendered “voluntarily” and were taken to “interrogation camps” by a military intelligence unit and the internal security agency, according to an Army statement.
The UN approves a resolution to guarantee the delivery of aid to Gaza
Andrew King
At the beginning of December, Israel assured that it was looking for alleged “terrorists” among those detained during the military offensive carried out in Gaza, whose images of dozens of them half-naked and handcuffed on the ground then generated a strong controversy, with statements from organizations such as the United Nations. United for going against “human dignity.”
On October 7, the Islamist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel with more than 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped. Israel declared war on the Islamist group and began a military offensive in Gaza, with at least 20,057 dead and 53,320 injured, most of them civilians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas.
Attacks in Lebanon
He Israeli army reported in a statement that on Friday night and yesterday morning it attacked, with artillery support, objectives of the Lebanese Shiite group as “infrastructure and a military complex.” The attacks come after an Israeli soldier was killed and another seriously injured on Friday in northern Israel in a militia attack from the southern Lebanonwhile Hezbollah He claimed responsibility for several attacks in which he assured that there were “confirmed casualties” in the Israeli Army.
The Israeli-Lebanese border live your higher peak voltage from the guerra that they freed Hezbollah and Israel in 2006following an upsurge in aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Since the beginning of hostilities, more than 168 muertos: 12 in Israel —8 soldiers and 4 civilians— and at least 156 in Lebanon, including 121 members of Hezbollah, 16 members of Palestinian militias, one soldier and 18 civilians —including three journalists and three children—, details Efe.
Israel has deployed more than 200,000 soldiers on its northern border, where violence has also caused the displacement of thousands of inhabitants: some 80,000 people have been evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 have fled southern Lebanon.
Arab countries see the Security Council resolution as “insufficient”
Arab countries and entities considered “insufficient” the resolution approved on Friday by the UN Security Council to encourage the shipment of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip because it does not mention the need for pause hostilities to allow the entry of supplies, collects Efe.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abulgueit, considered this Saturday that the resolution came “too late” and that it was still “far from what was expected to be achieved,” which is a complete ceasefire. “The resolution is an attempt to prevent famine in the Gaza Strip and save people, especially women and children, from a catastrophic situation, but it is not enough to stop the Israeli aggression machinery,” said the secretary of the organization. Arabic bread.
Egyptone of the conflict’s mediators, welcomed the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Strip, but called it “insufficient because the resolution did not include a demand for an immediate ceasefire.”
Other Arab countries share the position, such as Oman who, despite welcoming this step, criticized it because it does not comply with the ceasefire. The United Arab Emirates, sponsor of the resolution, defined it as “an important step.”
The initiative had to be rewritten several times due to objections from USAwho has veto power, although he ultimately abstained, as did Russia. The text asks the UN Secretary General to appoint a special coordinator to verify the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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